Lean e-Execution SM...it keeps your customers `clicking.'

AUTHOR(S)

Leitch, Jim

PUB. DATE

April 2000

SOURCE

Automotive Manufacturing & Production;Apr2000, Vol. 112 Issue 4, p92

SOURCE TYPE

Trade Publication

DOC. TYPE

Article

ABSTRACT

Gives advice about lean manufacturing in the automotive industry. Applications of electronic commerce in the industry; Areas where electronic executives should evaluate their electronic-business; Importance of strategy; Distribution methods.

Reports that the ability to join the ranks of authorized conversion firms that accept Big 3 vans, pickups and sports-utilities direct from the factory is becoming very difficult. Reason for difficulty; Decline in authorized pool accounts; Emphasis on quality; Number of Econolines that a pool...

Discusses how business units in the car industry creates their brand of tactical chaos, which they must manage to deal with. Principles at work in implicitly managed tactical successes; Case study of General Motors' metal fabrication plant in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Lessons from the `Local...